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1 month ago | 
efwd.energyvoice.com | Joseph Murphy |Jeremy Bowden |Ed Reed |Steven Gilmore
analysisSmall energy players chase big hydrogen storage projects prizeBy Joseph Murphy27th Feb 2025, 3.26pm
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
efwd.energyvoice.com | Ed Reed |Jeremy Bowden |Nick Butler |Steven Gilmore
analysisRight pieces, wrong picture for Scotland’s energy puzzleBy Ed Reed20th Jan 2025, 3.00pm
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
globalcapital.com | Steven Gilmore
If the purpose of the BRICS group — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is to amplify its members’ global influence, it may be having some effect. Looming geopolitical divisions are forcing countries to declare who their friends are, and the BRICS membership is growing. At a more practical level, the group is still far short of a genuine political or economic bloc.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
globalcapital.com | Steven Gilmore
China’s policymakers are not prepared to take the difficult steps necessary to fix fundamental issues facing the country’s ailing economy, according to senior economic analysts gathered in Washington. Investors are going to be “disappointed” if they expect Chinese authorities to abandon their focus on investment-led growth and rely more on domestic consumption, Haibin Zhu, chief China economist at JP Morgan, told GlobalMarkets.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
globalcapital.com | George Collard |Francesca Young |Oliver West |Dominic O'Neill |Steven Gilmore
Less than two weeks before the US chooses its next president, one candidate has made protectionism his standard, vowing to slap arbitrary and punitive tariffs on all kinds of trade, especially with countries he sees as rivals. Donald Trump has ratcheted up his hostile rhetoric on trade in the last few weeks. Based on his speeches, if he leads a second administration it would impose a 10% tariff on all US imports and 60% on all Chinese goods — unleashing a trade war.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Richard Fontaine |Steven Gilmore
If the purpose of the BRICS group — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — is to amplify its members' global influence, it may be having some effect. Looming geopolitical divisions are forcing countries to declare who their friends are, and the BRICS membership is growing. At a more practical level, the group is still far short of a genuine political or economic bloc.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
globalcapital.com | Steven Gilmore
An increasingly united axis of authoritarian countries presents a dire threat to the world economy and geopolitical stability. Political analysts say the international financial community must ask whether the correct parallel is the 1970s Cold War — or 1938. US defence secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday that North Korea had sent troops to help Russia in its war against Ukraine.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
globalcapital.com | Oliver West |Francesca Young |Steven Gilmore
A dismal October for US Treasury yields has shattered the cosy consensus that US interest rates can only fall. Market watchers increasingly fear they could rise again, which would strip emerging markets of the cuts in funding costs they had been banking on, and spoil their plans to lower their own interest rates. Since closing at 3.74% on October 1, the 10 year Treasury yield has climbed steadily, closing at 4.24% on Wednesday — its highest level since July.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
globalcapital.com | Steven Gilmore
Arab and Western states are considering helping with the cost of reconstruction of the Palestinian territories in the wake of the conflict in Gaza. But any such funding would depend on a political settlement being reached, and that remains elusive, experts warned, as new reports detailed the human and economic cost of the Israel-Hamas war. Gaza’s health ministry said on Wednesday that nearly 43,000 people had died since the war began in October 2023.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
efwd.energyvoice.com | Steven Gilmore |Ed Reed |analysisSteven Gilmore |skillsBy Ed Reed
analysisThe UK needs to expand its capacity to train and retrain workers as part of delivering the skills required for the shift to green energy and sustainabilityOver the long-term, there needs to be a greater focus on vocational and technical education. But as at least 80% of the 2030 workforce is already in the labour market, re-training and upskilling are the prioritiesIndustry is best placed to identify what skills are needed and how they should be taught.
